Four Weeks of a Neuro-Meditation Program Improves Sleep Quality and Reduces Hypertension in Nursing Staff During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Parallel Randomized Controlled Trial

Hausswirth, Christophe; Nesi, Xavier; Dubois, Alexandre; Duforez, François; Rougier, Yann; Slattery, Katie M.

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.854474

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“…Participants included nurses working night shifts, evening/night shifts, rotating shifts, and dayshifts, yet 15 studies did not specify the work shifts. Although most studies included healthy participants, seven studies included nurses with baseline sleep/fatigue/health complaints (Hausswirth et al, 2022; Huang et al, 2013; Morimoto et al, 2016; Mousavi et al, 2020; Niu et al, 2021; Yazdi et al, 2017; Zhou et al, 2022).…”

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“…Hausswirth et al (2022) found that a 4‐week light stimulation and mindfulness training program significantly improved sleep quality, sleep efficiency, and fragmentation index as assessed by actigraphy in the intervention compared to control group. Booker et al (2022) found no significant differences in sleep outcomes between intervention and control groups, but significant improvements in insomnia severity and functional outcomes of sleep quality as assessed by ISI and FOSQ‐10 compared to the baseline among nurses receiving a shift work and sleep education plus coaching sessions with individualized strategies on behavior changes.…”

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“…All of the studies except three (Booker et al, 2022;Cyr et al, 2023;Mousavi et al, 2020) 1). Ten studies used an objective measure of sleep-related outcomes (Aarts et al, 2020;Boivin et al, 2012;Chang et al, 2017;Franco et al, 2012;Hausswirth et al, 2022;Hsu et al, 2021;Jensen et al, 2016;Niu et al, 2021;Rahman et al, 2013). Secondary outcomes of these interventions consisted of various objective measures and health outcomes (see Table 1).…”

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Interventions to improve the sleep of nurses: A systematic review

Zhang,

Murphy,

Lammers‐van der Holst

et al. 2023

Research in Nursing & Health

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Nurses are at a high risk for short sleep duration and poor sleep quality due to irregular work schedules and high occupational stress. Considering the effect of nurses' sleep on the safety and health of themselves and their patients, it is important to promote healthy sleep for nurses. We sought to synthesize the published experimental and quasi‐experimental studies that address interventions to improve sleep in nurses. A systematic search was conducted for studies published in English up until May 15, 2023, using the databases PubMed, CINAHL, Academic Search Ultimate, and PsycINFO. In total, 38 articles were included, covering 22 experimental and 16 quasi‐experimental studies with sample sizes ranging from 9 to 207. Studies were assessed using the Cochrane Risk of Bias tool and considered as low to medium quality. Thirty‐six of the 38 studies reported positive findings for at least one sleep outcome. Intervention types included aroma therapy, dietary supplements, cognitive behavioral therapy, light therapy, mind‐body therapy, sleep education, exercise, napping, shift schedule modification, and multicomponent intervention, all of which showed moderate effectiveness in promoting sleep outcomes of nurses. Comparing and contrasting studies on specific interventions for improving sleep in nurses is sparse and often equivocal. With the variations of research methodology and outcome measures, it is difficult to make a conclusion about each intervention's effectiveness on specific sleep outcomes. Additional high‐quality research, including randomized controlled trials, is needed to evaluate strategies for improving sleep in this unique, safety‐sensitive occupational group.

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Interventions to improve the sleep of nurses: A systematic review

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“…Based on this finding and the potential for continued pressure from the COVID‐19 epidemic, we propose the following recommendations: (i) Given the high prevalence of poor sleep quality in dialysis patients, healthcare workers in dialysis centres should develop appropriate non‐pharmacological therapies to alleviate this phenomenon. Some studies have shown that mindfulness meditation improves sleep quality in the general population and COIVD‐19 patients (Desai et al, 2021 ; Hausswirth et al, 2022 ; Li et al, 2022 ). (ii) Policymakers should focus on the psychological status of the chronically ill population, who, after all, have to deal with both physical and psychological stress caused by COVID‐19 (Bonenkamp et al, 2021 ; Urquhart‐Secord et al, 2016 ).…”

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Association between negative psychology and sleep quality in dialysis patients during the COVID‐19 pandemic

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Aims and Objectives:The aim of this study was to assess the sleep quality in dialysis patients during the COVID-19 epidemic and explore the association between negative psychology (including depression, anxiety, and stress) and sleep quality in this population. Design: A cross-sectional study including three centres. Methods (Patients or Public Contribution): This cross-sectional study included 378 dialysis patients from April to May 2022 in three dialysis centres in Shanghai. Methods. Depression, anxiety, stress, and sleep quality were measured by the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), Perceived Stress Scale-14 (PSS-14), and Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI), respectively. With a threshold of 5 to classify participants into good and poor sleep quality, with HADS/PSS-14 scores as independent variables (per standard deviation (SD) increment), respectively and binary Logistic regression model was constructed to explore the association between the three negative psychological aspects of depression, anxiety, and stress and sleep quality. Results:The median PSQI score was 11.0 (mean ± SD: 11.8 ± 4.8). Among them, poor sleep quality (i.e., PSQI >5) was reported by 90.2% of participants. After adjusting for sociodemographic and disease-related information, HADS-depression was associated with a significant 49% (odds ratio (OR): 1.49; 95% CI 1.02-2.18) increase in the risk of poor sleep quality for each additional SD (2.4). Correspondingly, for each SD (7.1) increase in PSS-14, the risk of poor sleep quality was significantly increased by 95% (OR: 1.95; 95% CI 1.35-2.82). Conclusion:During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a significant negative association between negative psychology, such as depression and stress, and sleep quality in dialysis patients, and this relationship was independent of the dialysis modality.Relevance to Clinical Practice: In the context of the rampant COVID-19, the vast majority of dialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease presents with severe sleep quality problems, and negative psychology is a potential influencing factor.

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“…Considering the FIRST demonstrates stability across time (Jarrin et al, 2016) and stressor types (Table 1), aggregates in families (Drake et al, 2008), and is substantially heritable (Drake et al, 2011;Fernandez-Mendoza et al, 2014), sleep reactivity appears to be a trait predisposition seemingly unfit as a treatment target. Yet, emerging evidence that sleep reactivity is amenable to behavioural interventions belies its trait-like qualities (Cheng et al, 2022;Hausswirth et al, 2022;Okajima, Akitomi, et al, 2020;Okajima et al, 2021;Park et al, 2022;Yang et al, 2023), with some findings even suggesting reductions in FIRST help mediate recovery from insomnia (Cheng et al, 2022;Ubara et al, 2022). et al, 2022).…”

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The sleep response to stress: how sleep reactivity can help us prevent insomnia and promote resilience to trauma

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Kalmbach

Cheng

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Journal of Sleep Research

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SummarySleep reactivity is a predisposition to sleep disturbance during environmental perturbations, pharmacological challenges, or stressful life events. Consequently, individuals with highly reactive sleep systems are prone to insomnia disorder after a stressor, engendering risk of psychopathology and potentially impeding recovery from traumatic stress. Thus, there is tremendous value in ameliorating sleep reactivity to foster a sleep system that is robust to stress exposure, ultimately preventing insomnia and its downstream consequences. We reviewed prospective evidence for sleep reactivity as a predisposition to insomnia since our last review on the topic in 2017. We also reviewed studies investigating pre‐trauma sleep reactivity as a predictor of adverse post‐traumatic sequelae, and clinical trials that reported the effect of behavioural treatments for insomnia on mitigating sleep reactivity. Most studies measured sleep reactivity via self‐report using the Ford Insomnia Response to Stress Test (FIRST), demonstrating high scores on this scale reliably indicate a sleep system with a lower capacity to tolerate stress. Nascent evidence suggests elevated sleep reactivity prior to trauma increases the risk of negative posttraumatic outcomes, namely acute stress disorder, depression, and post‐traumatic stress disorder. Lastly, sleep reactivity appears most responsive to behavioural insomnia interventions when delivered early during the acute phase of insomnia. Overall, the literature strongly supports sleep reactivity as a premorbid vulnerability to incident acute insomnia disorder when faced with an array of biopsychosocial stressors. The FIRST identifies individuals at risk of insomnia a priori, thereby guiding early interventions toward this vulnerable population to prevent insomnia and promote resilience to adversity.

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Four Weeks of a Neuro-Meditation Program Improves Sleep Quality and Reduces Hypertension in Nursing Staff During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Parallel Randomized Controlled Trial

Cited by 10 publications

References 55 publications

Interventions to improve the sleep of nurses: A systematic review

Interventions to improve the sleep of nurses: A systematic review

Association between negative psychology and sleep quality in dialysis patients during the COVID‐19 pandemic

The sleep response to stress: how sleep reactivity can help us prevent insomnia and promote resilience to trauma

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